PORTFOLIO CHRISTIAN NYARIKI
CHRISTIAN NYARIKI
+1 315 708 6464 christiannyariki@gmail.com Linkedin: Christian Oanda https://www.linkedin.com/in/ christian-oanda-414221141
Student Architect
Work Experience: Jun 2020Jan 2021 (Full-time) 2019 (Summer)
2017 (Summer)
Fete Nature Architecture (Brooklyn, New York)
Proficiency: Representation
Illustrator
Work involved schematic design, design development, Construction Documents and site visits of various projects ranging in scale; Brownstone, traditional house construction, and led a design team for a Hotel in Senegal.
InDesign Photoshop AutoCAD
Milcon’s Construction LTD (Nairobi)
3D Design Rhino Revit Maya
I cross-checked structural, electrical and plumbing drawings with a building while in construction while the drawings were constantly updated with edits from the architects and engineers, and the changes were implemented on site. 2015 - 2017
2014 (Summer)
Residential Housing Project (Karen, Nairobi) Contributed to sourcing finishing materials, the design input for kitchen and bedroom cabinetry, lighting fixtures and gypsum ceilings, and the landscaping. Planning Interiors Limited (Kileleshwa, Nairobi) The project on hand required a furniture plan, furnishing, materiality, and overall plan layouts for office extension into a new floor of the building the company already occupied.
Education: 2018
Syracuse University Study Abroad (School of Architecture) NYC (Spring) and London (Fall)
2015 2020
Syracuse University (School of Architecture) USA
2014 2015
University of Nairobi (School of Architecture, Design & Development) Kenya
Portfolio:
https://issuu.com/christianoanda
Adobe CC (2D)
Rendering Keyshot V-ray Analysis
Simulation Climate Consultant
DIVA
Skills: 3D Modelling Design Conception Graphic Illustration Hand-drawing
Hobbies: Music Production Performance (Music Instruments)
Projects: 1: Auburn Public Theater 2: Mboolo Fair Trade Center 3: Primrose House 4: Silent Meditation Cabins 5: Atlanta Cinema House 6: Mott Haven Affordable Housing 7: Monolith Pavilion 8: Warren Brownstone
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Roof 75’ - 5”
Fifth Floor 60’ - 0”
Fourth Floor 42’ - 0”
Third Floor 30’ - 0”
Second Floor 20’ - 0”
First Floor 20’ - 0”
Longitudial Perspective Section Scale: 1’ = 1/8”
1: Auburn Public Theater (Collaborative with Brandon Conrad & Razan Bairagdar)
The Public Theater is a key attraction in Auburn city therefore the project’s design is an attempt to revamp the theater while accomodating a variety of function alongside it including an engaging public-performance atrium, and learning facilities including performance-support rooms, classrooms and a computer lab. The building’s key feature is a flexible cloth-like facade which alludes to a theater curtain. The facade ‘lifts’ at cetrain points along its length to allow entry into the building’s atrium in order to seamlessly integrate it with the outdoor street
ACADEMIC
Beams/ GirderS Columns
Structures
Structure 16 17 18 Ducts
Air Vents
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Units
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HVAC HVAC
Public
Circulation
Circulation
Private
Egress
2nd Plan 2ndFloor Floor Plan
Exterior Shot The facade’s design utilizes the narrow street which runs between the shopping mall (left) and the theater. The curtain-like design lifts up at strategic entry points into the theater’s atrium. This facilitates the atrium’s function as an additional and more public performance space. The protruding ‘window-boxes’ accomodate lounge space where people can enjoy a view of Auburn City during intermissions.
Theater Interior This features four bands of patterned wood surface. This facilitates great acoustic during performances The stage features a modularized system of acoustic panels which are portable hence flexible depending on the nature of the performance required
Flywell (Cat-walks) The space above the stage features suspension lines and pipe battens where props and lights are hooked onto to be raised and lowered when needed
Classrooms & Labs The theater building also houses learning spaces which cater to performance-related education
RUIN Axonometric
Tapered Rigid Insulation Aluminum Parapet Flashing 1/2” Weather Proof Roof Membrane 1/4” Weatherproof Membrane Cant R-20 Rigid Insulation BATT Insulation 6” Pre-Fabricated Concrete Roof Slab Metal Stud 1” Exterior Wood Cladding, TYP. 1’ I-Beam, TYP.
Street Adjacent Parapet Section
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Roof Terrace Parapet Section
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Detailing of the Extruded Facade Bays, Extended Floor Slab
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Tapered Rigid Insulation Aluminum Parapet Flashing 1/2” Weather Proof Roof Membrane Cant R-20 Rigid Insulation BATT Insulation Metal Stud 6” Pre-Fabricated Concrete Roof Slab 1’ I-Beam, TYP.
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Steel Stud, Structural 8” Aluminum, Double Pane Mullion, TYP. R-20 Wall Insulation 1” Exterior Wood Cladding
1” Metal Decking, TYP. 5” Poured Concrete Floor Slab, TYP. 2” Air Gap, TYP.
(Render by George Louras)
2: Mboolo Fair Trade Center (Fete Nature Architecture) LEAD DESIGNER
FNA worked on a design for impact investment in the Lac Rose region of Senegal. Preliminary designs here are for a campus of buildings including; a mix of two- and three bedroom ecolodge villas, a hotel positioned in the mid-scale segment, a sustainabilityfocused conference center, an incubator/accelerator school focused on educating a new crop of craftsmen and entrepreneurs, and a workforce housing complex.
PROFESSIONAL
(Render by George Louras)
Hotel
Conference Center
(Render by George Louras)
Single-standing Villas compliment the Hotel as accomodation for vacation goers. Various design techniques are incorporated to aid ventilation and lighting. Apartments provide adequate accomodation for the staff that facilitate the hotel, villas and Conference Center. The master plan also includes a School which is geared towards the education of staff children - an attempt to create a community around the Fair Trade Center.
2-Bedroom Villa
3-Bedroom Villa
3: Primrose House The house design is based on the essay ‘Heidegger in his Refuge: the existentialist house’ which describes a cabin in the woods, made of simple spaces and is isolated from the city. The house is located on Primrose Hill; it is intended to accommodate a single resident who works as a restaurant chef on a canal boat near Camden Market in London. The spaces are organized in such a way that the resident commutes to the canal everyday and whenever he returns home, his procession through the house leads him to his bed which orients him in the direction of the city, with a window framing his view.
ACADEMIC
The structure of the house is held within concrete retaining walls. Light steelframe structures hold the raised floors above the concrete base.
The ‘primrose’ functions as a skylight as well as an ornamental piece to disguise the house below it. Inside the house, a small rack with indoor plants allows the chef to grow herbs for his work at Camden market.
4: Silent Meditation Cabins The cabin is designed to provide short-stay accomodation for recreational travellers within the forests of Latvia, in a bid to facilitate the practice of silent meditation and promote both ecotourism and green building. Silent Meditation is a practice that emphasizes escaping the constant inundation of media and information, as is common in cities today. The cabins offer isolation from an urban life, and through creation of simple multi-functional spaces with panoramic views, provide the ideal atmosphere for meditation.
COMPETITION
Interior Shots At 15m2, the meditation cabin features three simple spaces; a meditation floor including a kitchenette, and a bunk bed set above a bathroom and water tank. The compact design intervention is built to sit well within the Latvian forests, providing its resident both comfort and functionality indistinguishable from a standard resort experience.
Glass (Double-Glazed) Wood Panel Wall Covering Structural Wood Spray Foam Insulation against exterior sheath Furring strips Cladding (Shingles)
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21’
15’
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Exterior Shot The rear end of the cabin features a raised platform which is an extension of the interior floor plate, as well as three rear doors are vertical bi-fold doors allowing the resident’s daily activity to effortlesly spill over beyond the sheltered interior, hence engaging the surrounding environment.
(Render by George Louras)
5: Atlanta Cinema House (Fete Nature Architecture)
The office worked with an owner in Atlanta, Georgia to reimagine their current 1920s home into a passive house that takes advantage of the Southern sun at the rear façade. The firm was most excited about the client’s vision for hosting community with movie screenings and conversations with film buff friends. The social and entertaining space features a big receiving room to showcase films and provide convivial gathering areas for eating home-cooked Korean food.
PROFESSIONAL
The staircase to the basement is surrounded by wood slat partitions which allow light and airflow from the skylight directly above the stairwell into the space beneath - creating a spatial division without visually blocking out the atrium.
(Render by George Louras)
(Plan by FNArchitecture)
6: Mott Haven Affordable Housing (Collaborative with Biyun Zhang)
The project tackles a pressing issue both in the Bronx and its larger context, the five boroughs of New York City. Studying the Mott Haven neighborhood in the south Bronx area, and in collaboration with the ‘South-Bronx Unite’ Community Land Trust, the project is a proposal for an affordable housing model that is practical and replicable throughout different sites across the Bronx.
Courty
- Availab commun activity - Conne Floor (M space)
ACADEMIC
Exterior Shot The large outdoor corridors provide residents space to extend their daily activities beyond the confines of their apartments, and additionally facilitates balcony/mezzanine seating for the courtyard, when it accomodates film screening activity.
Interior Shot The CENTRAL CORE features a kitchen and bathroom along a single plumbing wall, designed for efficient construction and utility services. It also allows the apartment end-to-end ventilation and customizable spaces that span 24 ft long rooms wall-to-wall.
7: Monolith Pavilion The design is inspired by the technique of cutting through a single solid object, as occurs in Rock-cut/ monolithic architecture, in order to create space. The pavilion features a continuous band of space throughout its floor plan and features different experiential qualities dependent on ceiling heights and apertures, regulating light, ventilation and views within the space.
ACADEMIC
8: Warren Brownstone (Fete Nature Architecture)
The project is a Brownstone renovation in Brooklyn, NY. The client’s intent was to convert the building to Passive House standard in order to improve energy efficiency while maximizing natural lighting in a more spacious layout. This renovation involved; reworking of floor plan layouts, re-designing the rear facade and roof, testing skylight iterations through rendering and physical modeling, as well as adding a penthouse above the original building.
PROFESSIONAL
MAXIMUM HEIGHT 50’-0” (XX.X' NAVD88)
EXISTING ROOF HEIGHT 37'-2 3/8" (XX.X' NAVD88)
THIRD FLOOR 23'-10 5/8" (38.0' NAVD88)
SECOND FLOOR 14'-0 5/8" (28.1' NAVD88)
LEGAL GRADE 0'-0" (14.1' NAVD88)
PAVED AREA
CELLAR FLOOR -5'-8 3/8" (8.4' NAVD88)
NON-PAVED AREA
FIRST FLOOR 3'-3 3/4" (17.4' NAVD88)
PROPERTY LINE
Backyard Design
Example
(Plan by FNArchitecture) Existing Backyard Plan
Staircase Design
(Section by FNArchitecture)
Example
Example
Example
DECK 108
FREZ STORAGE 007 FRIDGE
TOAST
DW STUDY 201
BACK RM 006
CAFE
PULLOUT TRASH
KITCHEN 105
STIARS 107
OVEN (X2)
CLOSET 202
HALL 008 LAUNDRY 004
BATH RM 005
DINING RM 104
POWDER 102 MECH 003
BATH 203
CLO 002
PLAY 204
CLO. 206 FOYER 101
BED RM 205 LIVING RM 103
BED RM 207
FRONT RM 001 ENTRANCE 100
(2nd Floor Plan by FNArchitecture)
WINE
WET BAR 400
M. BED RM 302
BEV
STUDY 201
HALL 301
SITTING RM 401 CLOSET 202
M. BATH RM 303 BATH 203
PLAY 204
M. CLOSET 305
CLO. 206
BED RM 205
TERRACE 402
BED RM 207
M. DRESSING 304
(Penthouse (4th) Floor Plan by FNArchitecture)
+1 315 708 6464 christiannyariki@gmail.com